Undertale – Aftermath
Chapter 5: Dinner
DISCLAIMER: Undertale belongs to Toby Fox.
*At the living room...
"So, who would you like to invite?" Toriel opens the UnderNet page on her phone.
"Your call, Frisk. I'm afraid I'm not really in good terms with other people. Except... Well, my own family, and you." Asriel turns his head to Frisk.
Frisk thinks to themslves for a moment, then snaps their fingers, "Sans."
"Sans the skeleton..." Toriel quickly taps the buttons of ther phone, typing something, "Who's next?"
"Papyrus."
"Papyrus... the cool skeleton? What a name. And then?"
"Monster Kid."
"That child might have problems with his parents... I'll have to contact them first."
"Don't forget Undyne."
"I believe she will be here any minute, bringing Dr. Alphys along, no doubt."
"Napstablook?"
"Okay... Although I'm not sure why would you invite a ghost to a dinner."
"Hey, a ghost need some rest, too." Asriel replied.
"Problem with spiders?" Frisk asked.
"Ah, no. We don't have any problems with the spider clan." Toriel shook her head, "Did you befriend a spider back then?"
"Muffet."
"Oh, you mean Muffet the baker? I heard she's planning to "expand" her business to the surface." Toriel redirects the page to the Spider Society website, "I'll send her an invitation, she'll come if she's not busy."
"Can we invite Metatton?"
"The popular robot? I heard his batteries ran out, I don't think he can attend any kinds of party yet."
"Asriel?" Frisk turns their head to the prince.
"Well, I can't just hide inside my room while you guys are having fun."
"Is that all? Only a few people?" Toriel asked, Frisk nods their head in confirmation.
"Very well, I will make the arrangements." Toriel approaches her husband, and shook his body to wake him up.
"What is it, Tori?" Asgore let out a big yawn.
"We are going to arrange a dinner party, and I might need your help on this one."
"A party? What's the occassion?"
"I'm not really sure, it's Frisk' idea."
"Well, count me in, then! And what manner of arrangement should I do?"
"I will take care of the utensils, you and the children can prepare the table and chairs."
"Will do." Asgore stands up and called Asriel and Frisk, "C'mon, kids, let's get the table and chairs."
"You got it, dad." Asriel and Frisk followed Asgore into some kind of storeroom full of different objects.
"Huh, this room hasn't changed since then." Asriel looked around after Asgore turned on the lightbulb.
"Yes, we don't have many items to store anymore. It was full of your stuff back then." Asgore replied while cleaning off a large table from dust, "This ol' table will have to do."
"Golly, why is this here?" Asriel pulled up a dusty photo frame, it has the name "Dreemurr" on it. He decided to show Frisk the picture after cleaning it with a piece of cloth, "Check this out!"
Frisk examines the picture, it shows a family photo of Toriel, Asgore, Asriel, and a somewhat familiar looking child. The four of them are smiling.
"See this one?" Asriel pointed at the child, "That's Chara, she died years ago because of some kind of disease." then turns his head to Frisk, "She looks exactly like you, Frisk."
"Well, the chairs are done!" Asgore wipes off a sweat after he cleans the chairs, "Now let's arrange these chairs and the table in the living room.
"I'll tell you more later." Asriel lifted one of the chairs, "Gosh, it's heavy." and walked out of the room.
After moving all of the necessary furniture to the living room, the three of them arranges the living room to accomodate space for the large table and the chairs. Toriel checks on their progress while cleaning the eating utensils, she smiled seeing that the family is back to the way it used to be.
*Minutes later...
After finishing the preparations, the Dreemurr family is waiting for their guests to arrive.
The first one to come was Sans, who mysteriously came out from the kitchen while carrying a bottle of ketchup, "'Sup?" he greeted the family, sitting beside Asriel, "Looks like I'm the first one to be here."
"How did you do that?" Asriel looks puzzled.
"Do what?"
"That... came out of nowhere thing."
"I used a shortcut?"
"Which shortcut?"
"That's the problem."
"I don't get you, Sans."
"Heh." Sans leans back on the chair.
Then the next was Papyrus, with his usual outfit, "It is I, the great Papyrus!" he exclaimed while entering the front door, "So!" he approached Toriel, "Do you need any help on cooking, your majesty?"
Frisk shook their head when Toriel turned her head on them.
"Ah, no thanks. That won't be necessary." Toriel replied poitely, albeit a little confused.
"Alright, then. But if you need anything, I will be glad to help." Papyrus sat next to his borther, Sans.
"'Sup, bro."
"Hmm, no surprise."
"What's the matter?"
"I could've sworn you were still in your room while I make my way to the palace."
"You're too slow." Sans smirked.
Then Undyne walked in, carrying a large metallic box, with Alphys beside her.
"Damn, this thing is heavy." she put down the box.
"C-Careful, it's still fragile." Alphys approached the box, opening it.
"What's that?" a curious Asriel approached Alphys.
"It's a surprise." Alphys paused for a moment, "K-Kind of..." she requested that the lights are turned off, for what reason, the others wonder.
"Now, clear some space, please." Alphys pulled out some kind of remote with a single red button, "I hope Metta is ready..." she whispered to herself while pushing the button.
The box began to shake, then suddenly, a huge flash of light startled everyone in the room, coupled with thick smoke that came out from the box. Behind it, a sillouhette of a familliar figure can be seen, "Hello, friends! Did you miss me?"
The fog dispersed, revealing a metallic robot, "It's me!"
"Mettaton?" Asgore raises an eyebrow.
"Now THAT'S a surprise!" Papyrus exclaimed.
"Golly, what's with the light show?" Asriel rubs his eyes, "Ow, my eyes."
"Oh my god!" Mettaton darts its eye around the room, "What kind of party that doesn't have ANY decorations?"
"Actually, we are planning a simple dinner tonight. Like, a family dinner." Toriel explained.
Mettaton turn its gaze to Alphys, who is now sitting beside Undyne, "Um... why don't you help in decorating the room?" she then turns to Toriel, "I-If the host permits..."
"Well, I suppose you could."
"Perfect!" the robot exclaimed, and then dives back into the metal box.
"Whoa, how did you do that?" Asriel looks inside the box, after which Mettaton jumps out with a variety of colorful decorations, "Let's make this party extremely BEAUTIFUL!"
Mettaton quickly decorates the walls with all kinds of baloons and ribbons, and installed multicolored light ball on the ceiling.
"Um, what is that for?" Asriel pointed at the huge circular lamp.
"Save the best for the last, darling. Save the best for the last." Mettaton replied.
"He hasn't changed." Sans chuckled.
"Mettaton is a he?" Papyrus turns to his brother.
"Well, I'd like to think so." he simply replied.
"I thought Mettaton is female." Papyrus observes Mettaton with confusal.
After quite some time, Mettaton finished decorating the room. Including the front yard of the house.
"Wowie, you must be an expert on this." Asgore examines Mettaton' work on the family' house, "I like it!" he gave the robot two thumbs up.
"Aw, you know me." Mettaton sat down next to Undyne.
"Hello..." a low, ghostly voice fills the room, "Am I late...?" a white figure floats into the room, carrying a few music discs.
"Oh, you're just in time, Blook!" Mettaton greeted the ghost.
"Are you bringing those creepy music you created?" Undyne pointed at the discs Napstablook is carrying.
"I made a new one..." Napstablook pulls out disc with an image of Frisk lying down on a floor, "This one is for Frisk..."
"Lying Motionless" Undyne reads out the title, "Eh, I like "Throwing Spears" better."
"I've never seen a more blank expression before..." Asriel stared at the disc, and then turns his head to Frisk, who is tilting their head in confusal.
"Now, who are we waiting for?" Papyrus raises a question in a rather impatient tone.
"Let's see..." Toriel pulled out her phone, "Muffet and Monster Kid isn't here yet..."
Suddenly, they hear a loud thud, as if someone just fell down, "Ouch!"
Everyone turned their attention to the source of the noise, a yellow, dinosaur-like monster with no hands that is wearing an orang striped shirt.
Undyne picks the monster up, "You really have to stop falling, kid."
"Hehe, sorry." Monster Kid put up a smile, "Look at what we've got!"
"We?" Undyne raises an eyebrow.
"Yeah, we." Monster Kid steps to the side, letting a large number of spiders pour in, bringing pink donuts and jugs of Spider Cider into the table.
"Well, ain't that nice." Mettaton observes as the spiders marched in.
One of the spiders approached Toriel with an envelope with a spider stamp on it.
"Oh, this must be from Muffet." she opened the envelope, revealing a letter inside, "Hmm..." the rest of them awaits for the queen to finish, "So, she cannot accompany us tonight, because she is planning an expansion of sorts."
"An expansion on what?" Asgore crossed his arms.
"Why, an expansion for her business, of course. She planned to sell warm Spider Cider at Grillby's." Toriel puts the letter back in, "Surely you'd allow that, right?"
"If that's the case, it's fine by me." Asgore replied.
"Thank you very much, little spiders." Toriel thanked the horde of spiders.
"Somehow I'm not freaked out by on how much spiders we have on our table." Asriel turned his head to Frisk, replied by a giggle.
As the spiders clears out, Monster Kid sat next to Frisk, "What's up?" he put up a smile.
"Good." Frisk replied simply.
As the two of them starts to chat, Asriel looks uncomfortable with Monster Kid' interaction with Frisk.
"I think someone's jealous..." Undyne whispered to Alphys' ear while grinning.
"Well then, now that's the party all set up, why don't we start it now?" Mettaon grabbed Napstablook that is still holding his discs and dragged him to a... Jukebox?
"Wait, where did that came from?" Toriel asked in confusal.
"My specialty." Sans replied, raising his shoulders.
"I swear that music implement wasn't there a minute ago." Papyrus scratches his skull.
"Please tell me you have an upbeat music!" Mettaton bows down to face Napstablook.
"Oh..." the ghost pulled out a disc with a picture of a fish, "I made this for Undyne..."
"You what?" Undyne glares at the ghost.
"Let's hear it!" Mettaton inserted the disc into the Jukebox, and as soon as the play button is pressed, a shockwave of fast beats fills the house.
"Holy fish! This is amazing!" Undyne rose up from her chair.
"So loud!" Alphys is covering her ears, before Undyne grabbed her and forced her to dance.
"Yeah, me too!" Papyrus leapt into the duo, and began dancing erratically.
"Heh." Sans began to drink a bottle of ketchup with a straw.
"Don't forget me!" Monster Kid literally jumped from his chair, almost falling down again, before Toriel grabbed him mid-air and putting him on the ground, "Please don't do that again."
Mettaton stood there, holding its chin while watching the four dance.
"You don't want to dance...?" Napstablook turns his gaze to the robot.
"Hm." Mettaton smiled, "With you, maybe." it grabbed Napstablook and spins around the other dancers.
"I'll just... eat this donut." Asgor grabbed one of the donuts, "I'm not much for dancing." and began eating.
Toriel smiled and shook her head at the guests behavior.
"C'mon." Frisk holds out a hand at the passive Asriel, while he is reluctant at first, he accepted Frisk' hand with a smile, and the two of them joined the rest in a random, freestyle dance.
"After all of this, I'm pretty sure the rest of you will be very hungry." Toriel headed out to the kitchen, preparing the burgers that Undyne and Asriel has made.
"Gosh, this is certainly not my thing..." Asgore took a sip on the Spider Cider, before looking at the container, "With Tem Flakes?"
"Careful, don't drink too much, Your Majesty." Sans grinned.
Asgore took another sip, and seems to be thinking about the taste, "Huh." and then proceed to take a big gulp, "This is great."
"Here it is." Toriel puts the burgers on the table as the rest of them stopped dancing after the loud music stops, "You can ask for more if you want."
They began eating burger together, Undyne is eating two burgers at once, while Alphys is eating her burger carefully.
Sans added extra ketchup to his burger, while Papyrus decided to mix mustard in his burger.
Asgore is still eating donuts and drinking a jug Spider Cider, while Toriel simply observed the party.
Frisk is feeding Monster Kid, as he has no hands to hold any object, and Asriel seems to be glaring at Monster Kid while eating his burger.
Sans sighed and whispered to himself, "Let's hope no more anomalies happened..."
I apologize for the delay, school is very demanding right now. Also, this chapter has less words.
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